Why Facebook Is No Apple or Google

By Investing Daily The difficulty will be in monetizing wireless technology. For the telecom companies it’s great because it’s more minut...

11 Signs of A Ticking Time Bomb in The Global Financial System

By  Michael Snyder Are we rapidly approaching a moment of reckoning for the global financial system?  August is likely to be a relativel...

Top 5 Reasons to Invest in Gold

By  Mike "Mish" Shedlock Reader David emailed a link to  GATA, SHAKA ZULU, And The Coming Gold/Silver STORM!  with a note "...

Paradigms of Investing: Always Be Surprised

By  Frank Holmes It was an exciting and educational week. I was in Vancouver at the Agora Financial Investment Symposium speaking to hun...

Infographic: The Great Recession vs. The Great Depression

By  Economy Watch The recessionary period following the 2008 financial crisis has often been compared to the Great Depression in 1929. Bu...

Corporate Profit Outlook: Bubbles Don't Benefit The Real Economy

By  Mike "Mish" Shedlock For the first time in three years,  US Quarterly Earnings are Poised to Drop . Third-quarter earning...

Moody's: ECB Buys Time, But Cannot Resolve Euro Debt Crisis

By Tyler Durden of  ZeroHedge   It would be odd to suggest that one of the most scathing critiques of the ECB's attempts to talk up ...

How The Euro Crisis Will Wreak Havoc on Global Commodities

By Reed Smith via  Commodities Now   The possibility of one or more countries exiting the European Monetary Union (the Eurozone) has been ...

Global Monetary Policy Review - July 28, 2012

By  Central Bank News      The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions by nine central banks around the world, with t...

When Second Quarter Earnings "Beat Expectation"

By  Charles Rotblut If there is a common theme we are seeing in second-quarter earnings reports, it’s the adverse impact the stronger dol...

Will The Stock Market Decide the U.S. Presidency?

By  Frank Holmes After the first few months of President Barack Obama’s term in office, I wrote about the carnival rollercoaster the mar...

Fake-out or Shakeout? Technical SP 500, Russell 200, Dollar Index and Gold

By  JW Jones Today has been quite a trading session with risk assets rocketing higher after Mario Draghi of the European Central Bank rei...

America, The Welfare State? Over 55 Million on Food Stamps or Disability

By Tyler Durden of  ZeroHedge   America's transition into a welfare state continues, as May saw a new all time high number of Americ...

The Funny Washington Politics After The CNOOC-Nexen Oil Deal

By  Stan Abrams   The latest political spin in the U.S. over the CNOOC-Nexen energy deal comes to us  courtesy of Congressman Randy For...

17 Numbers Say The U.S. Is Already in a Double Dip Recession

By  Michael Snyder If you were hoping for a recession in 2012, then you are going to be very happy with the numbers you are about to see...

Chinese Investment in US at Record High in Energy and Banking

By  Economy Watch China’s direct investment in the United States is expected to reach a new high of at least $8 billion this year, mostly...

Technical Gold Could Run To All Time High

By  Dave Banister ,  Chief Strategist - www.markettrendforecast.com   Just under two weeks ago I updated my subscribers with a chart pat...

Draghi Talks Big Saving the Euro, But Can ECB Really Deliver?

By Tyler Durden of  ZeroHedge   For those stunned that the market is reacting as euphorically as it is to remarks which are basically a ...

Infographic: Should You Still Get a College Degree?

By DegreeJungle.com A question sparking debates as tuition rates spiral out of control and unemployment for college grads hits record leve...

Get Ready For A 10 Year Technical Pattern Breakout

By  Chris  Vermeulen   As mentioned  last Friday  just before things took a dive on the weekend, a look at the major market indices did ...

Too Big To Fail Is Cracking Again

By  Commodity Trade Mantra Regulation issues, scandals and a protracted slow-growth economy seem to have finally caught up with big Ban...

Real Numbers Tell The Truth Behind the Affordable Care Act

By  Bruce Krasting The Congressional Budget Office produced two reports on Obama Care yesterday. The first ( A - Link ) did an analysis o...

300 Million and Counting: 40 Shocking Facts About Poverty in America

By  Michael Snyder Every single day more Americans fall into poverty.  This should deeply alarm you no matter what political party you b...

U.S. Poverty Rate To Reach 40-year High

By James Picerno of  The Capital Speculator Poverty is a hardy perennial. But while no one will be surprised to learn that eradicating p...

After Keystone, Canada Running to China for Oil Deals

By  Stan Abrams   After 1949 when the Communists defeated the Nationalist s for control of China, the mournful refrain from Washington, ...

Germany Could Lose Its AAA Credit Rating

By  Economy Watch Europe’s paymaster and the region’s largest economy, Germany, is at risk of losing its stellar AAA credit rating as Moo...

12 Signs Spain Is Heading Towards A Great Depression

By  Michael Snyder Where have we seen this before?  Bond yields soar above the 7 percent danger level.  Check.  The stock market crashes...

Is Euro Crisis Spreading to Germany?

By Mindful Money via  QFinance Because of the nature of the situation in the Euro area the situation in the periphery is often up for anal...

The False Safety of AAA-rated Sovereign Debt

By  Russ Winter  Negative real sovereign yields and now negative nominal yields (NIRP) prevail across the world because central banks...

What’s To Be Done on the Job Crisis?

by  Gerd Schwartz  and  Ruud de Mooij   (via   iMFDirect ) Faced with a jobs crisis, policymakers the world over are digging deep into...

Stock and Bond Diverge on Inflation Outlook

By James Picerno of  The Capital Speculator The stock market and the Treasury market’s inflation forecast seem to be going their separat...

More Than $21 Trillion Remains Hidden in Secret Global Tax Haven

By  Economy Watch Wealthy individuals are thought to have at least $21 trillion hidden in secret tax havens – an amount of wealth equival...

Health Care Problem in China by 300 Million Smokers

By  Stan Abrams     Everyone knows that China has a huge problem with smoking, and I would guess that many of my readers already know, f...

Look Beyond The Death Cross and Negative Yield

By  Charles Rotblut Scary-sounding descriptions of the market’s state never cease to surface during periods of uncertainty. The latest te...

Bumpy Ride Ahead for S&P500 and Copper

By  Chris  Vermeulen   It was just about a year ago today when the S&P was sitting at fresh highs and everyone was enjoying a rath...

Forget Libor-gate, Oil Market Manipulation Is Far Worse

By EconMatters Since the Global Community all the sudden seems to be preoccupied with Market manipulation even though the authorities kne...

Could Libor-gate Lawsuits Sink Wall Street?

By  Ellen Brown    At one time, calling the large multinational banks a “cartel” branded you as a conspiracy theorist.   Today the bankin...

How Much Oil Does The World Really Need?

By  Gail Tverberg A few days ago, I showed the  close relationship between growth in world oil consumption and growth in world GDP . In ...

Apple Gearing Up For A Chaotic New iPad China Launch

By  Stan Abrams    Paul Mozur of the  Wall Street Journal  asks a valid question: “ Can Apple Launch in China Without Incident? ” If you...

Is Fiscal Progress Enough To Dig The World Out of a Hole?

By  Carlo Cottarelli   (via   iMFDirect ) (Versions in  عربي, 中文, Español, Français, Русский,  日本語 ) We’ve just updated our  latest as...

Rising Global Food Prices and Unemployment to Drive Up Gold

By  Commodity Trade Mantra Gold Prices seem hungry for some news to rise and that news needs to be either fresh U.S. Quantitative Easing...

20 Signs The Next Great American Economic Crisis Is Near

By  Michael Snyder The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble.  There aren't enough jobs.  There isn't enough money to g...

Corruption and Incompetency Leaving Millions of Americans Without Power

By Jen Alic Amidst record-high temperatures and a very anti-climactic 4th of July, power outages have left millions without air-conditioni...

Euro Crisis: Tax Havens Are Killing Europe!

By David Smith at  Economy Watch EU states lose an estimated €1 trillion in potential revenue every year from tax evasion and avoidance a...

Charting Government and Inflation

By  Mike "Mish" Shedlock Let's take a look at inflation from the standpoint of prices. That viewpoint puts the cart befor...

After Libor, Oil Prices Could Be Rigged Too

By  Economy Watch Days after news of the LIBOR scandal broke, a report commissioned by the G20 warns that oil prices could be rigged by t...

Time Leads to Option Trading Profit

By  JW Jones My most recent missive discussed some of the nuances of the options Greek, Delta which deals with the change in opti...

IMF Sees Increasing Risks to Global Financial Stability

By  José Viñals   (via   iMFDirect ) Our latest update of the  Global Financial Stability Report  has  three key messages. First, financ...

Negative Interest Rates in A Bipolar World

By Mindful Money via  QFinance One of the most intriguing developments of the credit crunch era has been the development of trends in inte...

The Fate of Oil Price Lies with One Man

By Jason Simpkins  of  Wall Street Daily Oil prices have been especially volatile this year, torn between a political standoff with Iran...

5 Reasons for Business Insurance During Recession

If you are self-employed or you have your own business, you will no doubt have traversed one or two difficulties on your path to success. Bu...

IMF Sees Worrisome Increase in Global Downside Risks

By  Olivier Blanchard   (via   iMFDirect ) The  global recovery continues , but the recovery is weak; indeed a bit weaker than we  forec...

Signs of An Irrational Market

By  Michael Pettis Last night I arrived at my family’s home in Spain just in time to catch Spain play Italy.  The whole family and lots...

Gold's Volatility Factors

By  Commodity Trade Mantra Gold Market traders are awaiting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s semi-annual testimony about monetary policy to t...

U.S. National Debt: Wealth Tax vs. Income Tax

By  Bruce Krasting Two big problems America faces are that there is not enough tax revenue, and income is skewed to the top 10%. These is...

China Slowdown Complicates Global Outlook

By Anthony Harrington via  QFinance A hard landing in China has been predicted by "China bears" ever since word of China's ...

China GDP Data Dims Copper and Base Metals

By  Commodity Trade Mantra The entire Copper and Base Metals complex can remain under pressure over the next few months.  With weaker Ch...

Job Losses Put 12 U.S. Manufacturing Cities in Serious Despair

By  Michael Snyder Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don't focus on the few areas that are still very prosper...

The Real Reason Jobless Claims Drop to a 4-year Low

By James Picerno of  The Capital Speculator I wrote about the trend for a broad mix of economic and market indicators and reasoned that ...

Nothing Makes Sense in a "G-zero" World Any More

By  Russ Winter  “It seems there now is huge bullish demand for less than nothing.”  – James Grant “ It is time to abandon the idea tha...

$200M Missing at PFBest: One More Bites The Dust After MFGlobal

By  Charles Rotblut Nine months after the collapse of MF Global, another futures trading firm has imploded. Peregrine Financial Group (PF...

A Technical Breakout on Precious Metials

By  Chris  Vermeulen   After making new highs about a year ago we have seen Silver and Gold consolidate for roughly the last twelve mont...

Infographic: Is America's New Natural Gas Boom Good for the Economy?

By  Economy Watch America is in the midst of a natural gas boom and about 200,000 gas wells have been drilled in the last decade. In fact...

Global Monetary Policy Review - July 14, 2012

By  Central Bank News    The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions by 11 central banks around the world, with five cut...

Charting GLD ETF and Gold

By  Dave Banister   Chief Strategist - www.markettrendforecast.com   Gold had remained in a rough 1550-1640 range for several weeks now....

How to Profit from Gold Using Cycle Analysis

By  Chris  Vermeulen   Gold and stock market forecaster have been using cycles in price that repeat every certain amount of trading days t...

8 Signs of Global Chaos to Send Gold Sharply Higher

By Commodity Trade Mantra The rise in Gold Prices is inversely proportional to the Erosion of Trust in the financial system. Rising Gol...

4 More Reasons to Worry About a Coming Global Financial Doom

By  Michael Snyder The cracks in the ice are getting bigger.  At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global fina...

Fed Says No QE3 for Now, But Remain Divided

By Tyler Durden of  ZeroHedge   Just because Bernanke did not explain everything in the post-FOMC conference, here is more: A FEW FOMC...

Too Big To Fail Are Simply Giant Greedy Lying Machines?

By  Russ Winter  With all the seedy bank behavior that has been exposed since the financial crisis, it’s stunning that there’s still dirty...

Here Comes the Libor-Gate

By Tyler Durden of  ZeroHedge   The World of LIBOR We believe that we are in the early stages of what will happen with LIBOR.  As we...

How the Libor Scandal Affects You: An Infographic

By AccountingDegree.net Libor scandal is a big news, but it's very difficult to grasp.  So we did the research and came up with an eas...

Obama Middle Class Tax Scam

By  Bruce Krasting The Prez put his proposal on the table about what to do with the Fiscal Cliff the country faces at the end of the year...

Option Greeks - Diving into Delta

By  JW Jones Options can be terribly confusing for the trader first encountering them. One of the most confusing concepts to understand i...

Lies and Surprises Set To Catch Investors Off Guard

By  Bruce Krasting A Thought on China I had an e-mail exchange with an old fried who now works for a large macro hedge fund up in Gree...

25 Signs of A Rapidly Decaying America

By  Michael Snyder The problems that America is experiencing right now are not just confined to the field of economics.  The truth is...